With no serious debate, including on proposed amendments, Canada is blazing full speed ahead with Bill C-22, which would threaten encryption and increase surveillance. Also known as the Lawful Access

Monika Silva Koniuszek died from a blow to the head and strangulation, postmortem found, despite government claim of suicide

The burner phone could soon be a thing of the past in the US. The FCC has proposed forcing every telecom to collect and store a "government issued identification number"…

Several U.S. states are pushing to ban young people from social media entirely. This marks the latest wave of censorship bills masquerading as “children’s online safety” measures, with states like

Support free expression and fight the mass surveillance used for control and intimidation.

An EFF analysis of millions of searches of Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) data by police has uncovered a troubling pattern: in the absence of a warrant requirement to search ALPR

Meta has revealed that over 20,000 Instagram users had their accounts hijacked in a recent incident where attackers used Meta's AI-powered support system to reset passwords.

New details are emerging in the case of a North Carolina man who spent more than 50 days in jail after authorities identified him as a suspect in a Jacksonville crime he did not commit.

Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy

One of the largest pediatric hospitals in the US will pay state $10m and stop offering gender-affirming care to youth

A 19-year-old transgender UW student was killed in off-campus student housing Sunday night. She was the seventh trans woman attacked in Seattle in twenty months, and the first not to survive.

Reform UK leader records video with Essex pastor to support his battle against council banning order Nigel Farage has been criticised for giving his full support to a Christian church leader who preached that homosexuality was an “abomination” and would lead to eternity in hell. The Reform UK leader recorded a video with Stephen Clayden after Colchester council applied for a banning order to limit his street preaching. Continue reading...

Annual Mayday celebrations took place in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of Minneapolis on Sunday with a focus on community healing after the ICE surge.

Ian Pirie from Havering Friends of the Earth explains why the data centre boom should alarm communities, highlighting soaring power demand, water…

Hundreds of thousands of emails and X chat messages from Robert Malley, who was the lead negotiator on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and Biden's lead negotiator with Iran until his security clearance…

The old world of content safety practices is dead, and the new one is struggling to be born.

Reporters, community advocates, EFF, and others have used public records laws to reveal and counteract abuse, misuse, and fraudulent narratives around how law enforcement agencies across the country

California lawmakers are fast-tracking A.B. 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before

SmugMug is a family-owned photo hosting and e-commerce platform that helps professional photographers run their businesses online. Founded in 2002, the company provides tools for photographers to

One of the central promises of open social media services is interoperability—the idea that wherever you personally decide to post doesn’t require others to be there just to follow what you have to

Spy tech firm says it’s just ‘a software company’ amid pressure for a ban on new contracts with government agencies

New York's proposed 2026-2027 budget currently includes provisions that will require all 3D printers sold in the state to run print-blocking censorware—software that surveils every print for

A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. And there are myriad ways that law enforcement can

A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...

Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.…

Across the United States, communities are rethinking their use of Flock cameras and other automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems, and in many cases ending […]